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EPISODE 31: Ideas for your Global Sunday or Global Series
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It's Global Sunday season. Most churches here in the U.S. set aside one Sunday, or sometimes a whole series, to highlight the nations and get the congregation thinking about their neighbors and the...
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EPISODE 30: Six Lessons From Joseph on Living as a Global Goer
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I've been doing a deep study of the life of Joseph in Genesis, and I've realized he's my favorite Old Testament character. He's the one I want to revere. We admire Moses, but he murdered someone....
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Ep 29: An Experiment — Using Documentaries to Go Deep Into an Unreached, Unengaged People Group
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A few years ago I met a red-haired American named Sarah at the Perspectives 50th anniversary in Chicago, with a baby strapped to her chest. We connected instantly. Turns out she was living in...
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EPISODE 28: 8 Things Cross-Cultural Workers are Talking About in 2026
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I just flew back from a gathering overseas with about 130 cross-cultural workers living in some of the most difficult, and most strategic, places on earth in South Asia. I thought I'd bring you...
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EPISODE 27 Stilling Your Soul: A Breath Prayer to Help You Hear God
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I just got back from a camping weekend with zero cell service, and it reminded me just how much I need to still my soul and actually listen when I pray, not just talk. In this episode, I'm sharing...
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EPISODE 26 Love Your Neighbor in India: How One Woman Trained 33 Believers to Reach Muslims
Today I'm sharing something a little different — a real conversation I had with my colleague in India. I'm calling her Suwahati (not her real name) to protect her identity, but I wanted you to hear directly from her...
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EPISODE 25 When Muslims say "Jesus is not the Son of God!"
If you have Muslim friends, you already know this conversation. You turn things spiritual, and it goes the same way almost every time — the same objections, rapid fire, with total conviction. And usually, it ends in...
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EPISODE 24 Easy Ways to Meet and Greet Internationals in Your Country
In this episode, I'm answering a question from Ashley, one of my Neighbors & Nations Course students, who kept noticing Muslim and Hindu women at the grocery store and wanted to talk to them but didn't know what...
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EPISODE 23: How I Published My Book (And 3 Ways You Can Too)
Dozens of you have written in since my book came out asking the same question: how did you publish your book? Today I'm answering it — and giving you three different paths depending on why you're writing and what kind...
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EPISODE 22: We Just Started Driving South: A Survey Trip to Bangladesh
SUMMER SHORT-TERM TRIP SERIES: SURVEY TRIPS (BANGLADESH)
This is the finale of the Short-Term Trip Summer Series — and we're going to Bangladesh.
Two twenty-five-year-old millennial vloggers named Luke and Paul. A...
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EPISODE 21: Someone Has to Go First: What a Survey Trip Actually Is
SUMMER SHORT-TERM TRIP SERIES: SURVEY TRIPS
My favorite kind of short-term trip is the one hardly anyone is planning.
The Short-Term Trip called a Survey Trip goes where no long-term workers live. Where if you look up...
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EPISODE 20: Be Useful - What a Professional Short Term Trip Actually Looks Like
SUMMER SHORT-TERM TRIP SERIES: PROFESSIONAL TRIPS
Last week I took you to Mumbai to show you what a Vision Trip looks like — the Red Light district, the Dharavi slum, Titus and his chai, the maps-on-the ground prayer...
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